APT's unified approach to working with Psychosis
Course 6: The Masterclass. Integrating skills of assessment and formulation to develop effective personalized interventions.
The Psychosis Masterclass is a 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of accredited courses for professionals working in mental health and related areas.
It is APT-accredited and also gives you access to APT’s relevant downloadable resources for use post-course. The course is available for teams/organizations and can be attended face-to-face or online.
Please note: you can attend one, some, or all of 'APT's unified approach to working with Psychosis' courses, in whichever order is best for you.
Executive Summary:
Having knowledge about specific CBT interventions is not sufficient to treat psychosis as well as it can be treated. One needs to know also how to 'conceptualize' what is happening in a specific instance, to be able to 'make sense of' what is happening and thereby be able to plan the best intervention possible, regardless of the degree to which that plan involves CBT interventions, family interventions, help with social factors, help with occupational matters, or anything else.
What the skilled professional needs to be able to do is to form the best overall plan for the person concerned, probably involving extensive use of CBT type input but fundamentally free from 'allegiance bias'. The aim of this course is to help delegates to achieve this.
Who should attend:
Delegates should have some experience of CBT in psychosis, and some autonomy in their clinical practice.
Agenda and learning objectivities:
- To review relevant interventions for psychosis, including, especially, those covered by CBT, including behavioral, biological, environmental and social factors.
- To review specific techniques based on the above.
- To review the overall aims of such interventions, including what is and is not currently achievable. Based on the foundation above, the course then falls into three sections:
- The presentation of prepared cases, complete with the suggested interventions and the reasoning behind them.
- The presentation of prepared cases without any suggestion of what might be a reasonable intervention. The objective here is to give delegates the opportunity to develop suitable interventions.
- The opportunity for delegates to address their own cases and cases examples from their colleagues.
The objective here is to help delegates see key issues and how they can best be tackled. The job of the tutor is to facilitate these objectives by giving enough space for delegates to reach their own conclusions, while at the same time adding helpful information in the style of a 'masterclass'.
What you receive as a result of attending the training:
You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.
Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.
Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.
Booking this training is easy...Booking Options... for individuals or small groups For teams and organizations:
We bring the course and tutor to you, for an all-inclusive fee. Price: $12,400 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) for a group of up to 15 people. Extra delegates: $810 per person. Option 2: Online Live and Exclusive course: Live and interactive online course, delivered via Zoom or Teams* exclusively for your team or organization. Price: $7,760* for a group of up to 15 people (price includes a workbook for every delegate, posted to one address, or a PDF version can be provided). Extra delegates $510 per person. *We standardly deliver courses via Zoom (which is recommended). If you would prefer to use Microsoft Teams, there is an additional charge of $160 CAD per day. Option 3: 'Train the Trainer': If you or a colleague are a senior professional (e.g. consultant psychologist) and have a talent for communication and teaching, then you are welcome to apply to become an APT-accredited tutor. You could then tutor the course - or your chosen modules from it - in your own organization, under license. This is not only a highly appropriate use of senior professionals, but it also saves your organization the tutor-component of the fee each time you run it or your chosen modules (50% of the 'Online Live and Exclusive' fee, regardless of whether the course is held face-to-face or online). To see the full benefits of this and to see whether you are eligible, click the button:
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Psychosis Training Courses
Course 1: CBT for Psychosis - Key Knowledge and Skills for Everyday Interactions ❯
Course 2: CBT for Psychosis - Assessment, Formulation, and Helping Strategies ❯
Course 3: Early Intervention ❯
Course 4: Family Interventions ❯
Feedback Ratings.
We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course, which are updated periodically.
Face-to-Face
Presentation: 95%
Relevance: 93%
Online Live*
Presentation: 94%
Relevance: 89%
*This online live ratings are taken from the last three runnings of the course in this format.
Reviews.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the 'Course 6: The Masterclass' course has received.
"I would highly recommend this course to anyone working with clients experiencing psychosis."
"I can honestly say this was one of the most amazing learning experiences I've ever had."
